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la-niolue · 8 months

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“She,” Angua corrected. “This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.”

She could smell his bewilderment. Of course, everyone knew that, somewhere down under all those layers of leather and chain mail, dwarfs came in enough different types to ensure the future production of more dwarfs, but it was not a subject that dwarfs discussed other than at those essential points in a courtship when embarrassment might otherwise arise.

“Well, I would have thought she’d have the decency to keep it to herself,” Carrot said finally. “I mean, I’ve nothing against females. I’m pretty certain my stepmother is one. But I don’t think it’s very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact.”

“Carrot, I think you’ve got something wrong with your head,” said Angua.

“What?”

“I think you may have got it stuck up your bum."

Feet Of Clay

Honestly I love that Carrot's the one who doesn't immediately accept Cheery. Carrot is undoubtedly a good guy, and we know he does accept her later, so this really illustrate how pervasive prejudice can be.

I mean, Carrot is the one who accepts everyone, he's good and nice and open-minded. But he is a dwarf, and was raised with their traditional values that a dwarf isn't female. And so he is unconsciously prejudiced.

Like he says : he got nothing against it, per se, he knows some female you know, it's just that it's not done, see, it's wrong.

And that's a very common attitude in real life, when people have prejudice that they don't even realise are prejudice, because they grew up with them and never thought to question them. So of course that's not racist or transphobic or whatever, it's just common sense/how the world works.

So it's very nice to see that attitude being called out, because Carrot isn't being overly rude or insulting, and he even respected Cherry's pronouns when answering... But it's not much better and he's still wrong.

And also we know from later books that he does learn better! He got called out on his bullshit and he listened! And he got over his prejudice!

And so can we. I think most everyone grew up learning some bullshit ideas. And we're not automatically bad people for integrating them, we can't know what we don't know and blinkers are hard to get rid of. But we need to at least try to think critically about what we learn and more importantly, we need to listen when someone tell us we're full of shit.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #stop prejudice #cheery littlebottom #carrot ironfoundersson #feet of clay

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your-local-aaa-battery · 1 month

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My heart is broken for Ryan Gainer. No one deserves to die simply for being black and autistic. We must fight for the rights of all autistics, because no one will do it for us.

It is so close to autism awareness month, and my heart hurts knowing just how many people face the same discrimination for simply having a disability and being a POC.

I urge everyone to share and reblog as many posts as they can. Get the internet’s attention! Because we need everyone if we are going to continue the fight for justice for Ryan Gainer.

Rest in Power, Ryan Gainer

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jimbenton · 1 year

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#discrimination #social issues #stop prejudice #cartoon #jim benton

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sparksinthenight · 5 months

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Why we need Land Back

We should talk about current issues Indigenous people face.

In Canada at least there are many problems still happening.

Indigenous children are being ripped away from their loving families and put into foster care simply because the families are poor or the parents struggle with mental illness or something like that.

Women are being forcibly sterilized against their will.

Girls, women, and 2 spirit people are being kidnapped and sold into sex slavery and are also getting murdered and raped and their bodies are being thrown into the landfills.

The land that Indigenous communities need for their cultures and livelihoods is being destroyed by resource extraction companies that cut through the landscape and leave open wounds, that pollute the land, air, and water, and destroy the biodiversity and health of the ecosystems.

There is police brutality against Indigenous people, and people are killed by the police every day. There are hate crimes against Indigenous people.

Social services on reserves, including education, healthcare, utilities, housing, etc, are horrifically underfunded, and are funded much less well than the same social services off of reserves.

There’s discrimination in employment, in healthcare, in pretty much everything. And Indigenous people are kept in poverty and homelessness by the discriminatory society.

We need Land Back.

Land Back will allow Indigenous people to stop their land from being destroyed. Their cultures and livelihoods and mental health and spiritual health and well-being is so deeply tied to the land/nature. And actually, having them be able to effectively protect the land helps all of us because all humans are dependant upon the land even if we don’t realize it.

It will also allow Indigenous communities to force the government to stop discriminating against them by giving them worse social services. It will allow them to force the government to give them the same social services everyone else gets.

It will also allow them to force the government to stop taking their children. All children deserve to be with the families who love them and they should not be ripped away from their families, because this causes deep and devastating lifelong trauma.

It would allow Indigenous communities to stop rapists and traffickers and murderers from entering their communities. It will allow them to force rapists and traffickers and murderers out of their communities. And it will allow them to make sure every case of people getting raped or kidnapped or trafficked or killed is properly investigated and the victims are saved and the perpetrators get justice. Same with other hate crimes.

It will allow Indigenous people to have the power necessary to push back on police brutality and build better models of law enforcement, including community-ventured models.

Indigenous communities will also likely get a flow of money that they can use to lift their people out of poverty. They’ll have the power to stop healthcare discrimination and forcible sterilization. And they’ll have the power to force us to give justice to unethical healthcare professionals and to force systemic change in the healthcare system so that medical mistreatment doesn’t happen.

Indigenous people would also have the opportunity to do more outreach to settler communities and teach them about Indigenous culture and values and stuff, so that people learn to be less racist and discriminatory.

Land Back will help pretty much every marginalized community because stopping racism and discrimination for one race usually leads to there being decreased racism and discrimination for other races too.

Ultimately Land Back is about giving Indigenous people and communities the power to keep themselves and each other safe in a society that is actively against them. It is also about keeping the ecosystems that we all rely upon safe, and about stopping discrimination and racism.

Giving Indigenous people power to protect themselves and their communities isn’t going to prevent any other community from protecting themselves. It will create more equality and social justice for everyone in Canada.

I support Land Back. I’m a settler girl and I support Land Back, and you should too.

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eclectic-ways · 5 days

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“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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cat-downthestreet · 2 months

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"oh but gay people are statistically more likely to prey on women and children"

- someone defending homophobia

Hun. Honey. Listen to me. What statistics? What about the millions of people sharing their stories that show that GNC and gay men are more likely to be assaulted by straight guys and never get justice for it even if they tell someone?

Like, I'm sorry, if you think gay people are the problem you are just wrong.

To support my point, I asked my dad if I could share his story, so here it is.

A straight, middle-aged, male babysitter assaulted my dad when he was four. He has a wife and two daughters and no charges pressed against him. Why? Because no one wants to talk about a straight married man assaulting people, they'd rather believe social deviants are the predators. Not a totally "normal" guy with a job and a family.

My dad did tell his parents, but because real SA is not something the older generations want to acknowledge or do anything about, he never got justice for what was done to him.

My dad can be considered queer now, btw. He doesn't assault people, in fact he advocates for better sex ed in schools so parents in the next few generations will understand that anyone can be a predator and not just stereotypically deviant/different people. He also advocates for the rights of people who are statistically more at risk of being victims of SA, violence, and other things along those lines. The people he's advocating for are women, children, queer people, POC, and socially non-conforming people. Because those are the people who are actually at risk of being victims, even though they (especially queer people, POC, and socially non-conforming people) are constantly accused of being the abusers and not the abused.

From my dad's perspective, the real problem is prejudice and a lack of understanding for abusers and predatory behavior. Anyone can be a predator and a victim, it's not limited to one specific group. Some people are more likely than others to be abused, and some are more likely to be abusers.

If you try to argue otherwise, you are not seeing reality for what it is.

#tw abuse #tw sa mention #sa survivor #lgbtq rights #stop prejudice #queer rights #anti homophobia #protect queer kids

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rickmctumbleface · 5 months

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The last safe prejudice is against prejudice itself.

#stop prejudice

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brain-stewz · 1 year

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A rant.

There's nothing that I hate more than prejudiced people. People who hate others just because of their skin colour, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality. Or even if they're neurodivergent. Like what the fuck is that about. Let people be people. Like what do you mean you think women belong in the kitchen? Also that people under the Trans umbrella are born something and they should stick with it. As well as how people of the LGBTQIA+ community shouldn't love who they love and that people of colour don't deserve rights because they're different than you, a straight cis white boy. Not a man. A boy. Because a man wouldn't be biased because somebody is different from them. I just don't get how some people are just so hateful. It's sickening to me really. How dare you, a person who didn't have to fight for your rights and freedom, hate someone who did. You should be honoring them. Because their people who they stand for, worked hard in to getting where they are now. But you still decide to make fun of and berate them. I don't get it. We should be celebrating each other. Not hating each other. Hate is the worst thing this world created. Hate is strong, but love is stronger. We should love each other. We should be equal. World Peace. I want a world where people love and celebrate each other. Not one where we hate and berate each other. All of my love goes to the POC community, the LGBTQIA+ community, All religions, and all of the women out there. Blacks, Asians, Mexicans, Whites, Indians, Mixed, Albinos, Natives, anyone indigenous. I love you. Gays, Straights, Trans, Cis, anyone in the LGBTQIA+ community. I love you. Muslims, Jews, Christians, Atheists, Satanists, Agnostics, Hindus, and religion. I love you. And to every single woman out there, I love you. I love every single person out there. Even despite their differences. I love you. And other people should love you too.

#stop prejudice #racisim #mysoginy #rant #just ranting #homophobia #hatred #peace #teach peace #love #religion #lgbtq community #lgbt rights #lgbtq #ethnicity #blm #womenempowerment #stop hate

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oo-yu · 2 years

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LGBTQIA+ community : We stand as one and support each other for equal rights regardless of sexuality and/or gender !

Also LGBTQIA+ community when there are no cis hets to hate on : *proceeds to tear each other apart to determine who has it the worst, who’s a “real” man/woman and who is worthy of belonging in the community*

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #bullshit #stop prejudice #we are one community #for gods sake #ace spec #bisexual #trans people #agender #are also part of the community

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dragonlover158429 · 1 month

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Guess who just came back drained of all energy because she spent the day contradicting stupid b*tards. And then they ask me: "why do you look so tired all the time?". Well what can I say? "I'm sorry, putting up with humanity's hate and evil is really taking a lot out of me." I mean, I know it would be much less emotionally draining to just ignore them and not lead an argument but I had to say SOMETHING!

Like I'm French and I have to hear all day other students laughing RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME at how disgusting and arrogant french people are. And when I confront them it's "oh come onnnnn... It's true and you know it. You should be glad we accept YOU, because you're not like them, you're nice" EXCUSE ME?! I should be feeling grateful that you "FORGIVE" me for being french?! You're knowledge of french people goes down to having travelled to Paris for holidays 3 weeks in your life, but you let that define a whole nation?! And no one supports me. I am the only french native in the international high school so I have no support. They think it's normal. Worse they think it's JUSTIFIED.

And then during English lesson we were talking about prejudices and the danger of a single story. We were debating in groups and I thought (oh how naively) it would be a good idea to lead the debate towards furries because of the unjustified hate and prejudices they receive at the moment... Welp...

So a guy started saying furries are mentally unstable (which is a prejudice and not true in any way, not that I have anything against people struggling with mental issues ofc), and they think they're animals (techniqually that's therians than furries, but therians know they are humans though, they just don't completely feel human), and then he said we (who the heck is "we", I certainly do not relate to you in any way) should hunt them down like animals, since they identify as such. (WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT THE F*CK)

And then before I could say anything the teacher asked our group: "so what did you learn about the danger of a single story (name). And the guy turns around. And says to the whole class, looking the teacher in the eyes: "Well sir, I believe the most important thing is to not dehumanise people because of our personal bias. As it is unfair and will inevitably lead to hate and violence." (he didn't say it that well as that dumbass has no vocabulary whatsoever, I wrote it in a way you can understand better).

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see what I mean?

So of course I had to say something. And I don't regret anything. The good thing with being neurodivergent is that in moment like these my immense sense of justice makes up for my social awkwardness and I don't stutter or can't make eye contact anymore. I wish I could talk more about the heated debate that followed, but writing this has definetly drained me of whatever energy I had left and I can't go on.

I know I'm ranting and venting and I'm sorry, but honestly..... humanity sometimes....

#rant post #vent post #angry #i dont know #this is my second post on tumblr Idk what to write for tags #french #stop prejudice #stop haters #therian #nonhuman #otherkin community #therian community #cryptidcore #Idk why I put cryptidcore except it's my new obsessive interest #racial injustice

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hallsonienna · 2 months

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I’ve been pondering for a while now how to express some feelings that have just been eating at me. You hear so much about all that’s going on in Israel and Palestine these days, and it seems like so much of it is propaganda. Not just from the Israeli government or Hamas, although that’s certainly true, but also from individuals, organizations, political parties, and other governments. The worst part of this to me is that all this disinformation and hatred has real effects on people, both those in the conflict and those who share a cultural or religious connection with them.

I recognize that I have no right to any opinions about the conflict. I have them anyway, but I know it’s OK to have an opinion and not share it when I am ignorant of many of the facts and not involved.

Where I have a real problem is when I see the hatred being directed at either the Israeli people or Palestinian people, or more immediately at Arabic people and/or Jews here in the United States. And that’s where it gets harder for me to shut up. I know people who directly deal with this, and I can’t tell you how much it pisses me off to see them affected by it. A Jewish woman who I count as my dearest friend online is (thank the Goddess) 1000x stronger than I am, but still even a goy like myself can see how it has to hurt her to constantly have to fend off all the shit aimed at her, every fucking day. Now multiply that by millions.

Antisemitism in particular is so damned hideous, and it has persisted through hundreds (and likely thousands) of years in societies that would consider themselves civilized and moral. And down the centuries, it has come with wild conspiracies about the Jews eating babies or running the world through secret webs of deceit, or whatever vile bit of fuckery people come up with.

Muslim/Arabic hate may be newer in origin, but it still has centuries under its belt, and is vile in its own right.

And I haven’t even gotten into the many, many other prejudices and hatreds that people fling at groups like Black people, Hispanic/Latino people, LGBTQIA+ people, anyone who get treated as less than human because they aren’t “just like you”. Mainly because that isn’t my focus right now, even though some of it hits me directly.

I beg of people, please think before you open your mouths and spout hate!! And then DON’T DO IT!!! And if you see it happening, step in to help stop it! (And that last sentence is intended for myself as much as for anybody else, I am way too timid sometimes.)

Please remember there is a huge difference between the nations and powers in a conflict and the people who just want to live their lives. Please let them.

#israel #palestine #propaganda #stop prejudice #stop hate #stop antisemitism #stop anti Muslim hate

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higherthan-orions-belt · 4 months

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You and Your Family Have Given Me Light

Being taught prejudice and fear

Is something I immensely struggle with

Often through tears

I can remember hearing chants in Arabic

Feeling afraid I didn't know what they meant

Allahu akbar, a feeling I'll never forget

These beautiful and loving words, I felt a chill down my spine

A sign

My ancestors reminding me of the love I've found in all your light

#julias #poem #poetry #personal #freepalastine🇵🇸#free palestine #stop prejudice #free gaza

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olskuvallanpoe · 2 months

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Okay, I’m tired of society vilifying disabled bodies.

My best friend, the sweet and beautiful angel she is, posted a selfie on Instagram. She was smiling and wearing a crop top. One could see the little decorative tube-pads she had over her two tubes, the barest amount of tape over her chest port, and a healed surgical scar on her stomach.

Instagram flagged this photo for “sensitive,” “violent,” and “graphic” content.

A photo of her existing in her own body with the devices it takes for her to survive. A photo of her smiling, her being happy inside of her disabled body.

I am disgusted. The idea that disabled people are expected to censor their bodies and hide away any proof of their disability from the non-disabled majority makes me sick. Disabled people like us and our bodies do not deserve to be locked away behind a censor or be forcibly covered up for the sake of non-disabled people’s comfort.

Your discomfort is not more important than a disabled person’s equal right to exist.

#rant post #personal rant #mini rant #actually disabled #disability shit #disability justice #instagram #fuck instagram #stop prejudice #the future is accessible #disabled bodies #we exist #censorship #fuck your comfort

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jojomills · 1 year

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‘X, Y, Z’

You say you hate us for x, y, z

So I hate you back for hating me

This is not hypocrisy

For I will stop if you hear my plea

I don’t want to hate you eternally

So please reconsider the x, y, z

Until then you are still an enemy

And I must defend against enmity

Are we destined to this for eternity?

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#poetry #spilled ink #original poetry #poets on tumblr #stop prejudice #stop hate

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nando161mando · 5 months

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skullcrushaa · 1 year

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People will love the x-men franchise then quite literally be racist

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